andreabartz 's review for:

Invisible: How Young Women with Serious Health Issues Navigate Work, Relationships, and the Pressure to Seem Just Fine by Michele Lent Hirsch

5.0

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I loved this thoroughly researched, beautifully written, clear-eyed exploration of the huge demographic of young women dealing with chronic illness and other serious health issues. What Hirsch uncovered is in fact pretty infuriating (e.g., male doctors everywhere just NOT BELIEVING women, and researchers failing to study women because our cycles make studying us "inconvenient"), and I've found myself frequently bringing up factoids from the book in conversations with friends. Highly recommended for everyone, really, because if you aren't dealing with an invisible health issue yourself, you certainly know someone who is.